Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,388 6,141 7,264
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.02% 23.17% 19.49%
As % of the General category 34.59% 36.26% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,331 4,137 5,072
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 111 227
10th Percentile £15.68 £16.41 £13.24
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.93 £15.59
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +20.00% -2.45%
75th Percentile £57.85 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% -8.96%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,252 16,937 21,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.00% 63.89% 57.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,640 10,873 13,632
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,754 845 1,766
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.36 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.92
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -17.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £73.75 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +4.68%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,034 £575 -4.17% 3,132
North of England +1 1,284 £500 +7.53% 852
South East 0 718 £500 -4.76% 1,008
North West +4 668 £475 +5.56% 456
Midlands +1 654 £500 +11.11% 463
Yorkshire 0 572 £525 +7.69% 295
West Midlands +1 482 £500 - 264
South West -2 383 £525 -4.55% 354
East of England +5 203 £520 -9.57% 258
East Midlands 0 165 £500 +17.65% 198
North East -22 45 £500 +13.64% 111
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 288 (3.43%) Confluence
2 210 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 80 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 67 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 47 (0.56%) Apache
6 44 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.33%) SAS
8 27 (0.32%) CMS
9 20 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 14 (0.17%) IIS
12 13 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.095%) Appian
15 6 (0.072%) Hyperledger
16 5 (0.060%) WebLogic
17 4 (0.048%) WordPress
18 3 (0.036%) TPMS
Applications
1 451 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 180 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 153 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 142 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 59 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.060%) Sketch
9 4 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.048%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.048%) Trello
10 3 (0.036%) Notion
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 308 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 109 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 96 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 82 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 74 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
6 72 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 46 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
8 43 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
9 41 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
10 37 (0.44%) Aladdin
10 37 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
11 33 (0.39%) SAP FI
12 27 (0.32%) Workday HCM
13 25 (0.30%) SAP CO
14 23 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
14 23 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
14 23 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
15 22 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
15 22 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
16 21 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,342 (16.00%) Azure
2 971 (11.58%) AWS
3 571 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 430 (5.13%) GCP
5 288 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 284 (3.39%) SaaS
7 253 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 224 (2.67%) GitHub
9 189 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
10 177 (2.11%) Snowflake
11 168 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 131 (1.56%) Serverless
13 110 (1.31%) Amazon S3
14 100 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 98 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 92 (1.10%) dbt
17 89 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
18 86 (1.03%) OCI
19 85 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
20 82 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 158 (1.88%) Firewall
2 133 (1.59%) Network Security
3 74 (0.88%) DNS
3 74 (0.88%) VPN
4 57 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 54 (0.64%) WAN
6 41 (0.49%) BGP
7 37 (0.44%) SSL
8 33 (0.39%) DHCP
8 33 (0.39%) LAN
9 31 (0.37%) HTTP
10 28 (0.33%) Multicast
10 28 (0.33%) OSPF
11 23 (0.27%) MPLS
12 22 (0.26%) Internet
13 21 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
14 20 (0.24%) SD-WAN
15 17 (0.20%) VLAN
15 17 (0.20%) VSAN
16 16 (0.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (5.83%) Power BI
2 243 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 232 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 168 (2.00%) Metadata
5 163 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 148 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 127 (1.51%) Tableau
8 120 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 82 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 72 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.79%) Oracle Database
12 65 (0.77%) Big Data
13 59 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 51 (0.61%) MongoDB
15 49 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
16 47 (0.56%) Power Query
17 44 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 43 (0.51%) Delta Lake
19 39 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
19 39 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 596 (7.11%) JIRA
2 217 (2.59%) Git
3 159 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 91 (1.08%) GitLab
5 54 (0.64%) JUnit
6 48 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 43 (0.51%) Selenium
8 28 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (0.32%) Postman
10 24 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.27%) ERwin
11 23 (0.27%) REST Assured
11 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.25%) Maven
12 21 (0.25%) MLflow
13 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
15 15 (0.18%) Gradle
15 15 (0.18%) Hudson
16 14 (0.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,455 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 1,571 (18.73%) Banking
3 1,140 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 477 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 387 (4.61%) Legal
6 337 (4.02%) Financial Institution
7 320 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 312 (3.72%) Front Office
9 281 (3.35%) Retail
10 278 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 215 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
12 199 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 158 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 155 (1.85%) Local Government
15 148 (1.76%) Manufacturing
16 137 (1.63%) Billing
17 135 (1.61%) General Ledger
18 125 (1.49%) Law
18 125 (1.49%) Marketing
19 118 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,227 (14.63%) Analyst
2 924 (11.02%) Senior
3 891 (10.62%) Lead
4 840 (10.01%) Developer
5 800 (9.54%) Architect
6 622 (7.42%) Business Analyst
7 614 (7.32%) Project Manager
8 543 (6.47%) Consultant
9 309 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
10 286 (3.41%) Data Engineer
11 212 (2.53%) Senior Manager
12 193 (2.30%) Financial Analyst
13 177 (2.11%) Accountant
13 177 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 172 (2.05%) Java Developer
15 166 (1.98%) IT Manager
15 166 (1.98%) Programme Manager
16 165 (1.97%) Software Engineer
17 162 (1.93%) Finance Manager
18 151 (1.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (3.10%) REST
2 257 (3.06%) .NET
3 248 (2.96%) React
4 230 (2.74%) Kafka
5 184 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 183 (2.18%) Middleware
7 156 (1.86%) Spring
8 147 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.42%) RESTful
10 110 (1.31%) Redux
11 106 (1.26%) Node.js
12 105 (1.25%) PySpark
13 83 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 80 (0.95%) JSON
15 73 (0.87%) OAuth
16 63 (0.75%) XML
17 59 (0.70%) CSS
18 58 (0.69%) .NET Framework
18 58 (0.69%) Pandas
18 58 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 405 (4.83%) Onboarding
2 367 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 353 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 230 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 203 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 188 (2.24%) Data Structures
7 163 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 161 (1.92%) Fixed Income
9 153 (1.82%) Derivative
10 152 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 147 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 143 (1.70%) Data Centre
13 124 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 117 (1.39%) Equities
15 114 (1.36%) AI Agents
16 110 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 102 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
18 100 (1.19%) Public Cloud
19 96 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
20 90 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 296 (3.53%) Windows
2 254 (3.03%) Linux
3 136 (1.62%) Unix
4 63 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.44%) Solaris
6 35 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 35 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 32 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.37%) zOS
9 29 (0.35%) Android
10 25 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.20%) AIX
12 8 (0.095%) VMS
13 7 (0.083%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.083%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.060%) HPUX
14 5 (0.060%) SUSE
14 5 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.048%) MVS
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,833 (21.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,734 (20.67%) Agile
3 1,170 (13.95%) Migration
4 1,092 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 995 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 939 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 915 (10.91%) AI
8 907 (10.81%) DevOps
9 883 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 848 (10.11%) Analytics
11 820 (9.78%) ERP
12 781 (9.31%) Decision-Making
13 719 (8.57%) Roadmaps
14 710 (8.46%) Validation
15 695 (8.29%) Project Management
16 693 (8.26%) Data Modelling
17 648 (7.73%) User Acceptance Testing
18 619 (7.38%) Change Management
19 611 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
20 545 (6.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,154 (13.76%) SQL
2 1,030 (12.28%) Python
3 567 (6.76%) Java
4 361 (4.30%) C#
5 246 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 238 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 201 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 81 (0.97%) Bash
9 73 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 71 (0.85%) C++
11 70 (0.83%) Go
11 70 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 57 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 56 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 49 (0.58%) VBA
15 47 (0.56%) Scala
16 38 (0.45%) Bicep
17 33 (0.39%) Apex Code
18 30 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 27 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 666 (7.94%) Degree
2 665 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 474 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 213 (2.54%) PMP
5 200 (2.38%) ACCA
6 186 (2.22%) PMI Certification
7 177 (2.11%) CIMA
8 151 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 145 (1.73%) CISSP
10 121 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 98 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 85 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 81 (0.97%) CISM
14 77 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 64 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 50 (0.60%) AWS Certification
17 46 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
18 39 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 31 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 529 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 363 (4.33%) QA
3 314 (3.74%) PMO
4 285 (3.40%) GDPR
5 156 (1.86%) NIST
6 128 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 108 (1.29%) IFRS
8 100 (1.19%) SLA
9 90 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 89 (1.06%) GRC
11 78 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 61 (0.73%) GAAP
13 60 (0.72%) PCI DSS
14 54 (0.64%) ISO 20022
15 37 (0.44%) NCSC
15 37 (0.44%) Solvency II
16 36 (0.43%) SEPA
17 29 (0.35%) PSD2
18 28 (0.33%) SOC 2
19 26 (0.31%) COBIT
System Software
1 256 (3.05%) Docker
2 182 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 56 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.31%) vSphere
6 19 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.18%) RACF
9 13 (0.15%) NFS
9 13 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.072%) GPFS
11 6 (0.072%) KVM
12 5 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.036%) GridGain
14 3 (0.036%) IAG
14 3 (0.036%) SRDF
15 2 (0.024%) ACF2
15 2 (0.024%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 377 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 267 (3.18%) Terraform
3 141 (1.68%) Ansible
4 78 (0.93%) Grafana
5 67 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.60%) SCCM
8 44 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.29%) Control-M
10 18 (0.21%) vRealize
11 16 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 13 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
15 12 (0.14%) Argo
16 11 (0.13%) CASB
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
17 10 (0.12%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 1,082 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 684 (8.15%) Oracle
3 647 (7.71%) SAP
4 312 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 258 (3.08%) Databricks
6 208 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 184 (2.19%) Google
8 127 (1.51%) Workday
9 114 (1.36%) VMware
10 110 (1.31%) Splunk
11 106 (1.26%) IBM
12 96 (1.14%) Cisco
13 90 (1.07%) CyberArk
14 60 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 59 (0.70%) Citrix
16 56 (0.67%) Bloomberg
17 54 (0.64%) Sage
18 49 (0.58%) Ariba
18 49 (0.58%) Informatica
18 49 (0.58%) Murex